Cisco ThousandEyes Deployment & Implementation

Cisco ThousandEyes Deployment & Implementation
Price : $ 4495
Duration: 5 Days
Technology: Cisco

Overview

TEDI, Cisco ThousandEyes Deployment and Implementation, is a 5-day course designed to help you understand, deploy, and manage the ThousandEyes platform. This course provides the details and hands-on activities necessary to successfully deploy ThousandEyes and perform outage and performance analysis by leveraging data patterns and correlating test output.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • Describe the ThousandEyes solution and its benefits
  • Describe ThousandEyes agents, their purpose and how to determine optimal agent placement
  • Explain the different ThousandEyes test types and their purposes
  • Configure and run tests to correlate test output with the source of an application or network performance issue

Who Should Attend:

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Systems Engineers
  • Technical Solutions Architects
  • Application Developers and Engineers

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Knowledge of cloud and (virtual) data center architecture and networking concepts
  • High-level familiarity with basic network protocols and applications
  • Familiarity with common application delivery methods

Description

  • High-level Cisco SD-WAN Deployment models
  • Application level SD-WAN solution
  • Cisco SDWAN plan for HA and Scalability
  • Cisco SD-WAN solution components: vManage NMS, vSmart Controller, vBond Orchestrator
  • Edge Routers (cEdge & vEdge)
  • Cloud Based Deployment vs On-Premises Deployment
  • Overview
  • User Input Required for the ZTP Automatic Authentication Process
  • Authentication between the vBond Orchestrator and WAN Edges
  • Authentication between the Edge Routers and the vManage NMS
  • Authentication between the vSmart Controller and the Edge Routers
  • Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
  • Cisco SD-WAN Circuit Aggregation Capabilities
  • Secure Connectivity in Cisco SD-WAN
  • Performance Tracking Mechanisms
  • Application Discovery
  • Dynamic Path Selection
  • Performance Based Routing
  • Direct Internet Access
  • Cisco SD-WAN In-built Security features: App Aware FW, Talos IPS, URL Filtering, Umbrella Integration & Advanced Malware Protection
  • Dynamic Cloud Access: Cloud On-Ramp for SaaS and IaaS (AWS, Azure & GPC)
  • Config: Test Configuration Changes Before Committing
  • NAT: Secure Routers Acting as NATs
  • Edge Routers: Connect to the Console Port
  • vManage Operational Commands
  • SD WAN Devices: Site ID Naming Conventions
  • SD WAN Devices: Using the System IP Address
  • vManage NMS: Disaster Recovery
    • Disaster Recovery – Cluster failover scenarios
    • vManage Disaster Recovery Checklist
    • How to configure Disaster Recovery
  • vManage – Application Monitoring
  • How to enable DPI on SD-WAN cEdge Routers
    • Monitoring Application traffic per device/site
    • How to enable SD-AVC on vManage and push to routers.
    • Configuring application log collection parameters.
  • vAnalytics
    • vAnalytics dashboard walk-through
    • vAnalytics Network Health
    • vAnalytics Network Availability
    • vAnalytics Applications
  • Ecosystem Partner Solutions
  • Check Application-Aware Routing Traffic
  • Collect Device Data To Send to Customer Support
  • Monitor Alarms and Events
  • Monitor TCP Optimization
  • Ping an SD WAN Device
  • Run a Traceroute
  • Simulate Flows
  • Troubleshoot Cellular Interfaces
  • Troubleshoot Device Bringup
  • Use Syslog Messages
  • Tunnel Health
  • BFD Session Information and Troubleshooting a BFD Session
  • Cflowd Issues
  • Data Policies
  • DPI Issues
  • Symptom: Site Cannot Reach Applications in Datacenter
  • Symptom: vManage Showing Edge Router or Interface Down
  • Symptom: Site-Wide Loss of Connectivity (Blackout)
  • Symptom: Poor Application Performance (Brownout)
  • Issue Severity Assessment
  • Troubleshooting NAT Issues for Control and Data connections
  • BGP Information
  • Multicast Information
  • OMP Information
  • OSPF Information
  • PIM Information
  • Symptom: Some or All Routes Missing from Edge Routing table
  • Symptom: Data Traffic Using Suboptimal Path
  • Symptom: Data Traffic Not Using All Transports
  • Application Performance with Cloud-Express Service
  • Tunnel Latency Statistics
  • Tunnel Loss Statistics
  • Checking configuration o For Localized Policies
    • For Centralized Policies
  • How to check if FIA is enabled
  • Confirming and troubleshooting TCAM Issues
  • Enabling Various Policy Level Logs
    • FRM Logs
    • EPBR Logs
    • FNF Logs during config
    • Collecting Log Files
    • How to deal with too many logs
  • Check Alarms and Events
  • Check User Accounts and Permissions
  • Deploy the SD WAN Overlay Network
  • Determine the Status of Network Sites
  • Control Connections
  • Data Connections
  • OMP Status
  • Enabling Embedded Packet Captures and Packet Trace on Cisco cEdges
  • Generate a Certificate Signing Request
  • Issues when installing a certificate
  • Using Cisco Signed Certificates vs 3rd Party Signed Certificates
  • Upload the Edge Serial Number File
  • Decommission a vEdge Cloud Router
  • Determine the Status of a Network Device
  • Migrate a Controller’s Virtual Machine Using vMotion
  • Remove an Edge Router’s Serial Number from the vManage NMS
  • Replace an Edge Router
  • Restore the vManage NMS
  • Set Up User Accounts to Access SD-WAN Devices
  • Validate or Invalidate an Edge Router
  • Software Versions Installed on a Device
  • Troubleshooting platform crash issues
  • Determine Changes to a Configuration Template
  • Determine Why a Device Rejects a Template
  • Alarm Severity Levels
  • Hardware Alarms
  • Checking Alarms and Notifications
  • LEDs
  • Additional Information
  • Restore an Edge Router
  • Remove Edge Router Components

Lab Outline

  • Lab 1: Deploy and configure the Cisco SD-WAN Fabric
    • Configure and Deploy Control-Plane Connectivity
    • Configure and Deploy an Overlay Network
    • Provision and Deploy vManage Templates
    • Provision and Deploy vManage Policies
  • Lab 2: Operational Best Practices
  • Lab 3: Installing SD-AVC and monitoring CFlowd & DPI
  • Lab 4: Cisco SD-WAN Control Plan Troubleshooting
  • Lab 5: Cisco SD-WAN Data Plane Troubleshooting
  • Lab 6: Cisco SD-WAN Troubleshoot Routing Issues
    • Basic route troubleshooting on the SD-WAN XE Image
    • Debugs on the Cisco SD-WAN XE Image
  • Lab 7: Troubleshooting Cisco SD-WAN Policies
  • Lab 8: Configuring a vManage Disaster Recovery Backup
  • Lab 9: Troubleshooting platform crash files
  • Lab 10: Configuring Cisco SD-WAN Alarms, Alerts and Notifications

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